"Enoch Arden" in Real Life.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 7, 22 December 1869, Page 7

"Enoch Arden" in Real Life.

An incident has just occured at the little village of Wisbeach St. Mary's which very nearly coincides with the Laureate's famous poem. It appears that, some years ago, a young lady, a native of the place above named, became enamoured of a ship's captain, to whom she was in due course united. The husband was, of necessity, much away from home on voyages, but they nevertheless lived happily together for a long time. Like Mr Tennyson's hero, however, the captain at length sailed on a voyage, and did not return. The wife " waited and watched wearily," yet still he came not, and her hopes were doomed to disappointment. As time sped on, the bereaved young lady became reconciled to her loss, and returned to her native village. She married again—this time a carpenter. All went well, and seven years more passed over her head, until one fatal clay she and her husband made an excursion to Yarmouth. They spent the day enjoyably ; enough, and arrived at their home in the fen safely. The first husband, supposed to be, dead, was on the beach at Yarmouth, where he. recognised his wife. He followed the couple to the village, and •there learned--the new ties-df his whilom wife. There was but little poetry in the captain's, composition. He could not let the " Philip- Kay" rest with his '" Annie Lee." lie waited for darkness, then broke in upon the unsuspecting pair and claimed his own.. The affair has cw?atod ro small I wns-ition in iljo district,